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It captures the anomie of screened-in life only too well. It seethes with the sense of boredom and self-obsession and confusion we all live with. But how much of that do you really want to surround yourself with? - Esquire MagazineEDIT

After you've seen the first ten minutes, you could probably write out the plot yourself, beat by beat. But inside all that cliche is actually a very interesting, and very pertinent, vision of football. - Esquire MagazineEDIT

Day-Lewis appears historical even when he's cuddling his son. He just can't manage to seem normal. Both aspects of the character seem hokey, and empty - missing the essential humanness that saves historical drama from just being costumes and ideas. - Esquire MagazineEDIT

The people behind the theories in Room 237 all share an intense capacity to infer connections. What is so maddening is that those connections are clearly there, though their significance is ultimately hidden. - Esquire MagazineEDIT

Whether you want to see it or not is more or less the same the decision as whether you want to go to Florida itself. You probably do, even if you don't care to admit it. Like the state itself, it's just so much trashy fun. - Esquire MagazineEDIT

Victims' rights groups have openly worried that the movie will call into question the nineteen-year sentence Spector received... They needn't worry. The film is no challenge to anything except the careers of those involved with it. - Esquire MagazineEDIT

Though the plot of Sicario may be, by now, well-trod, nobody has told it quite as stylishly. Of all working directors, Villeneuve is emerging as the best maker of straight thrillers. - Esquire MagazineEDIT

It breathes with the agony of its making. It is the kind of film that justifies, in its joyful exploration of the possibilities of the medium, the unique glories of cinema and all that it can be. - Esquire MagazineEDIT